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Two central Ohio developers are planning to build a five-story retail and student apartment
complex on N. High Street across from Ohio State University.

The project, called the View on High, is on the site of a Wendy’s restaurant and a parking
lot. The restaurant will be demolished and a new Wendy’s built on the ground floor of the
development.

The View on High will include 64 apartments for OSU juniors, seniors, graduate students and
staff. The first floor will include retail space. Parking will be behind and below the project.

Developers hope to begin work on the project in the summer and complete the apartments in
time for the start of school in fall 2014.

The project is a venture of JSDI Celmark, a partnership of long-time central Ohio developers
Solove Real Estate and Celmark Development Group.

Celmark CEO Mike Balakrishnan said the apartments in the new project will feature amenities,
such as flat-screen televisions, similar to his two other campus-area housing developments, the
Summit and East Village.

One-, two- and a few four-bedroom apartment units will be included in the development. They
will rent by the bedroom.

Balakrishnan said rents have not been determined but that he expects bedrooms to rent for “
far more” than the $700 a month that East Village units command. He said some one-bedroom units may
top $1,000 a month.

“We think the demand will be phenomenal at this location considering that when we opened East
Village. It was almost on the fringe of the campus area, and it leased up immediately,” he said.

“Students demand quality. They want high-speed internet. They want all of that, and there’s
not that many facilities providing that around campus now.”